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Picture Bank
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<H3>About Picture Bank</H3><hr width=80%>
<p>Pre-alpha release</p>
<p>This program is created as a result of the observation that people tend to organise files into directories (or &quot folders&quot) of related items, and that such collections tend to increase in size and as they do so they become disorganised and full of duplicates.  The intention here is to assist in the management of such collections by allowing the user to create lexical relationships between directories, which may not otherwise be apparent or practical, and by doing so create logical collections from disparate sources.</p>
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<li>It's a collection of Perl cgi scripts which are intended to let you browse collections of files</li>
<li>It's intended to help you manage your collections of files by creating lexical associations between directories</li>
<li>It allows you to apply searcheable terms and keywords to directories</li>
<li>Despite the name, it doesn't actually care what kind of files you ask it to deal with, as long as they can be shown within a web page</li>
<li>It tries to give you flexible navigation controls for browsing</li>
<li>It gives you the option to create &quot galleries&quot of files in related directories</li>

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<p>What is Picture Bank <em>not?</em></p>
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<li>It isn't intended to give any direct means to manage your files</li>
<li>It doesn't attempt to use your ~/.thumbnails directory</li>
<li>Becuase it's intended to deal primarily with large collections, it doesn't give you the means to apply search terms to individual files (although you could manually add these in)</li>
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<p><H4><a href=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/pages.pl>Start Here</a></H4></p>
<p>Read the welcome page <a href=welcome.html>Welcome</a></p>
<img align=right valign=bottom src=flower.png></img>
<p>This software is licenced under the GPL.  Read it <a href=LICENCE.txt>here</a></p>
<p>Read the <a href=README>README</a></p>
<p>Read the <a href=Changelog>Changelog</a></p>
<p>Read the <a href=TO-DO>To-do file</a></p>
<p>Read the <a href=CREDITS.txt>Credits file</a></p>
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